Edited by Jean L. Cohen and Cécile Laborde Published December 2015 Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this...

Edited by Randall Balmer and Jana Riess Published December 2015 When Joseph Smith ran for president as a radical protest candidate in 1844, Mormons were a deeply distrusted group in American society, and their efforts to enter public life were met with derision. When...

By Henri Lauzière Published: November 2015 Some Islamic scholars hold that Salafism is an innovative and rationalist effort at Islamic reform that emerged in the late nineteenth century but disappeared in the mid twentieth. Others argue Salafism is an anti-innovative...

Edited by Hent de Vries and Nils F. Schott Published: November 2015 One can love and not forgive or out of love decide not to forgive. Or one can forgive but not love, or choose to forgive but not love the ones forgiven. Love and forgiveness follow parallel and...

The latest book in the Religion, Culture, and Public Life series published by the Columbia University Press and edited by IRCPL Director Karen Barkey, is Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World, edited by Hent de Vries and Nils F. Schott. One can love and not...